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- kieran-sub-schedules, 3 days ago, 5 messages
hearty moat
Hello, can you describe your usecase a bit more? It is possible to get a preview with the invoice amount and such fully calculated. But it will just be a preview, it would not be payable https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/upcoming
If you want something payable, I think you would need to create a one-off invoice, charge for it, and schedule the subscription to have a $0 price for one cycle before switching back
split dagger
I want to do the following:
- Create a subscription, that will create an invoice to the customer, but the billing/plan cycle needs to start i the future
I have clients with set contract start dates, but we want to set up their account and invoice/subscription to they have some time to pay over ACH
What is this bill yearly starting? Is that the schedule subscription at work?
From what I read is that there needs to be a subscription before an invoice, is that correct?
is the bill yearly starting the billing_cycle_anchor?
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hearty moat
Yes, that "Bill yearly starting" option will create a subscription schedule and set the start date to the time you selected
Billing cycle anchor will be set to when the subscription is created, so that will also be that time, but you don't have to set that yourself when creating the schedule
split dagger
ok cool!
When I create a SubscriptionSchedule, will that create a Subscription object in the interface?
Where do I find those? And can I fetch the upcoming Incode for that one as well?
hearty moat
Not until the start date that you set for the subscription. It will populate this property when the subscription is createdhttps://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/object#subscription_schedule_object-subscription
split dagger
ok!
hearty moat
You can provide the schedule ID to the upcoming invoice endpoint https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/upcoming#upcoming_invoice-schedule
split dagger
customer=stripe_customer_id,
start_date=contract.start_date,
end_behavior="release",
phases=[{"items": subscription_items, "iterations": 1}],
This would release it then correctly right?
hearty moat
Though that preview will not be payable. To allow time to pay in advance you would need to create a one off invoice and logic to prepay a bit of the actual subscription if it is paid
Yep, looks good to me but I would reccommend testing in test mode to make sure it works how you would expect
split dagger
Ok, so the only way to get an invoice before is to
- create manual invoice
- prepay the subscription (with what mechanism?)
fickle dirge
Hi there 👋 taking over, as my colleague needs to step away
Give me a few minutes to get caught up.
split dagger
let me know if you need more information
fickle dirge
If I understand the situation correctly, you should check if the one-off invoice gets paid, then set a $0 Price for the first cycle of the Subscription Schedule.
split dagger
yeah, that is what your collegue suggested to do
and I should not send an invoice for that first cycle
since it was already paid by another one
fickle dirge
Makes sense. Is there an outstanding question that I missed?
split dagger
How do I prepay a subscriptions first incoice?
is that done in the ScheduleSubscription?
or how Do I not send th efirst invoice?
fickle dirge
I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean prepay?
split dagger
That is what your college said. That’s why I’m asking
From him: Though that preview will not be payable. To allow time to pay in advance you would need to create a one off invoice and logic to prepay a bit of the actual subscription if it is paid
How do I do that in the subscription schedule?
Maybe you can connect me with someone else
fickle dirge
Yeah, I asked them what they meant and they said they didn't mean to use the term prepay, so I'm asking you what you mean when you say prepay.
Help me help you
split dagger
It laterally says it in their text above
If that is not correct, how else would I solve my problem?
Otherwise I’ll just contact my account manager maybe that’s better
fickle dirge
I can get ahold of them for you if you like. What's your Account ID?
If that is not correct, how else would I solve my problem?
They said the term "prepay" was perhaps not the best word to use. This was what they sent to me during handover:
Prepaying was actually bad phrasing on my part. My recommendation would be that if that one-off invoice gets paid, they set a $0 price for the first cycle of the scheduled subscription.
The implementation is the same though